Template talk:Cite book

Date
Unfortunately using the date function imposes a month and day when one are not provided, and the date used is the current date. This causes existing template invocations to display an incorrect date. And many books do not provide a full publication date, at most only a month and year in most cases. Due to this (and after confirming it was causing problems) I have reverted the change. --Quasar (talk) 08:07, 25 July 2020 (CDT)


 * Ouch, not my week is it? I swear I reviewed live usage for exactly this reason, but apparently it wasn't representative.  Thanks for double-checking and I will not try this again without a fistful of test cases (and if my stomach can take it, also see whether our behavior, Wikipedia's behavior, and the documentation actually sync; there have been massive parser changes).  Best, Ryan W (living fossil) 13:50, 25 July 2020 (CDT)